{"id":4241,"date":"2023-04-10T13:09:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T13:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4241"},"modified":"2023-04-10T13:09:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T13:09:37","slug":"sermon-4-9-2023-the-offense-of-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4241","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 4\/9\/2023: &#8220;The Offense of the Cross&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen Here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Ross-230409-Offense.mp3\">The Offense of the Cross<\/a>&#8220;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Everything is changed (is changing) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. His resurrection is an historical fact, and history matters.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It\u2019s not simply that believers go to heaven. That\u2019s not the good news! Yes, it\u2019s true, but the story about heaven is not about what happens on earth.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The good news of the gospel is \u201con earth as it is in heaven.\u201d The good news of the gospel is that God is bringing the kingdom of heaven to earth. The good news of the gospel is that life on earth is being reconciled, renewed, regenerated, reconfigured in the light of Christ\u2019s resurrection. Here and now!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The good news is not that Christians get to escape this troubled earth when we die, but that Christians have been empowered to live in the midst of Christ\u2019s reconciliation, in the midst of the renewal of His people here on earth.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Christians are regenerated in the image of Christ, reconfigured to live here with Christ here on earth in peace and glory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sermons are available on the website (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:www.stpaulsmarietta.org\/audio\" target=\"_blank\">https:www.stpaulsmarietta.org\/audio<\/a>). Share the link with your family and friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news of the gospel is \u201con earth as it is in heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-4241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worship-this-week","tag-worship-this-week"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Paross","author_link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4244,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions\/4244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}